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Audio Engineering!

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Most people love some kind of music. Some even dream of being rock stars, but there is an exciting new way to mix music into your future. When Electronic Engineering and Computer Science meet Music Technology, out of the mix comes exciting innovations that are changing the way we enjoy our music. It's all thanks to Audio Engineers.

Fed up with all that feedback as your guitarist goes near the speaker? Would you twiddle with the knobs, or would you write some audio software to balance the speakers automatically for you? Do you still manually create playlists for your iPod? The audio engineers got fed up of doing that too so they've been coming up with ways your computer can do it for you, whether by analysing your music or working out your moods. Don't accept music has to be made and played the way it's done now. Invent a new way. Read on.

You can also read our Audio! magazine online or download pdfs.

Highlights

Playlists

DJ Soundbite

Augmented Instruments

Dork Bot screen Cyborg Music

Collaborative Music

Nick playing a Daisyphone Try Daisyphone for yourself

Virtual Instruments

Playing Air Guitar Play Air Guitar

Mutual Engagement

Jazz sax All that Jazz

Audio through history

Chatsworth Cascade A soundly engineered waterfall

Synthesising Singing

Music notes The truly virtual singer

Computer Translation

Rapper How to make Google beatbox?!

Virtual Classic Instruments

Zebrafish Moving forward by modelling the past